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Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

Source: Phys.org · Published 8 Oct 2026, 15:00

Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth's earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils—even though they were essentially fragile "bags of goo"—while later soft-bodied…

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